by Ciprian Jichici
12. February 2010 01:42
I have to admit I was a little bit worried about the overall performance of the new Visual Studio 2010 shell based on the Windows Presentation Foundation technology. I had some mixed feelings while using the preliminary releases like Beta 1 and Beta 2. Don’t get me wrong, I am a big fan of the new VS simply because WPF opens a whole new range of possibilities for it. My concerns were focused around its performance on mid-sized machines. I am perfectly aware of the fact that not all developers are going to code using VS 2010 on quad/octo-core hardware with 16/32 gigs of RAM. This is why I am using my Acer Aspire 1420P notebook as a benchmark to measure the quality of the development experience with VS 2010 (to make things clear, the machine has 4 gigs of RAM and a dual-core Intel Celeron CPU running at 1.2 GHz).
After one and a half day of use in heavy coding I have to say I am impressed and many of my original performance concerns are now things of the past. True, I haven’t had yet the chance to try all the different designers and project templates, but I can say there is a significant improvement in performance when compared to Beta 2. Jason Zander does an excellent reviewon Channel 9 related to the significant changes made in VS 2010 RC.
It certainly looks like VS 2010 together with .NET Framework 4 are on the right track to rock the world of developers once they hit RTM.
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